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Greta75 -> RE: Legal Latinos must like the wall idea very much! (5/16/2016 9:14:12 PM)
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This just reminds me of one of my girlfriends. First of all, her mom married a damn rich American man. The American dude was her stepdad. The apartment she lives in Singapore cost 10million that her step dad purchased. It's that kind of wealth. She spent 10 years in the US before returning to Singapore together with her whole family. And she came back telling me how the Americans take care so well of their elderly, the government give old people enough money to just enjoy their retirement at home, like no elderly in the US will ever have to fear poverty. Why is it Singapore is such a rich country and so many elderly are ransacking garbage and basically collecting things to recycle for money?
And I remember I was arguing with her that, not all old people doing these stuffs are doing it because they need to, but are doing it, because they are bored staying at home with nothing to do, and want to be doing something. They find it fun and they enjoy it. They also came from an older generation who just always feel the need to work, but were uneducated, so there is alot of modern job that don't suit them. They don't even speak mandarin or English. And the alternative is to work as a cleaner, which many may not like. So this recycling thingy works out for them. Many actually don't need to work, but choose to do it.
I just find chinese old people from old generation so ridiculously frugal, always have healthy money stash somewhere, but always live like in poverty, there was this story of this cleaner, who works for just 400 per month. Like seriously bad pay, and she's like 76 yr old. And then it was found out she had 700k of savings in her bank. Way more than enough for her to chillax and not work so hard, but she chose to continue working.
Unfortunately, how it was found out was, she got cheated by some China scam.
My own grandma was so bored, she signed up for a cleaner job but she lasted a week ha! And then decided baby sitting grand kids was much more fun. She was complaining she got enough of children! She's done her dues! And wanted to try some job. She's been a housewife all her life. And she can't speak English or Mandarin. She speaks a chinese dialect.
And basically, all she does is come over to my parent's place and boss around their maid and rotate and do that, she got 5 kids different homes to hang out in, all her kids got children, she got shitloads of grandkids to choose from to hang out with too. But she still actually signed up and tried to be a cleaner.
When I heard that, I laughed.
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